2 The coast facing the Indian Ocean is under tropical forests.

3.Many people are engaged in cattle breeding in this country.

4.He used improved methods in his work.

III. Перепишите предложения; подчеркните в каждом из них модальный глагол или его эквивалент. Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1.The situation should be improved.

2.The farmers have to change their farming methods.

3.One can see great progress in the development of the country.

4.He is to examine the experiment very carefully in order to get good results.

5.The death-rates declined and the total population was to increase.

6.He must have been to India.

7.Rice may be grown in the Ganges valley.

8.They have to improve some raw material.

IV. Прочтите весь текст, устно переведите его. Перепишите и письменно переведите 2-й, 3-й, 4-й и 5-й абзацы.

INDIA

1.India, one of the world’s biggest states, is playing an increasingly important role on the international scene. It is a federal democratic republic, one of the members of the British Commonwealth. Situated in the center of South Asia, it has a 15000 kilometer-long border. On all land frontiers the country is surrounded by high mountains. The coast facing the Indian Ocean is under tropical forests. The climate is essentially tropical.

2.A land of ancient culture, India has a population of more than 550 million consisting of different races and tribes. It is the second largest population (after China) in the world. While birth-rates remaining stationary, the deathrates declined resulting in a huge increase in total population.

3.Politically dominated by the British for almost two centuries, India received independence in 1947. Since their independence Indian people have made considerable headway in economic and cultural development.

4.India is rich in coal, gold, iron-ore and oil. India’s leading industries are engineering, metallurgy, machine building.

5.The majority of the population are engaged in agriculture. Farmers are growing rice in the Ganges valley. India is a leading producer of tea and jute. Although India ranks high as a world producer of food crops, the

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output is not sufficient for the enormous population. The situation is to be improved by a number of measures in the farming methods.

Notes:

Birth-rates – рождаемость Death-rates – смертность

IV. Прочтите 6-й абзац текста и вопрос к нему. Из приведённых вариантов ответа укажите номер предложения, содержащего правильный ответ на поставленный вопрос:

What are the majority of the population of India engaged in?

1.The majority of the population are engaged in machine building.

2.The majority of the population is engaged in agriculture.

ЗАДАНИЯ КОНТРОЛЬНОЙ РАБОТЫ ДЛЯ СТУДЕНТОВ 2 КУРСА (СРОК ОБУЧЕНИЯ 5,5 ЛЕТ)

Чтобы правильно выполнить это задание, необходимо освоить следующие разделы курса английского языка:

1.Сложные формы инфинитива (Passive Infinitive, Perfect Infinitive). Обороты, равнозначные придаточным предложениям: объектный инфинитивный оборот, субъектный инфинитивный оборот.

2.Причастия (Participle I, II). Независимый (самостоятельный) причастный оборот.

3.Условные предложения.

ВАРИАНТ 1

I. Перепишите и письменно переведите на русский язык предложения. Помните, что объектный и субъектный инфинитивные обороты соответствуют придаточным предложениям.

1.We know the British cotton industry to have risen in the eighteenth century.

2.Agriculture is considered to have seen many changes in the eighteenth century.

3.The method to be used here may be tested beforehand.

II. Перепишите и письменно переведите на русский язык предложения. Обратите внимание на перевод зависимого и независимого (самостоятельного) причастных оборотов.

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1.Britain having most of her coalfields near the sea, this was a great help to cheap transport.

2.Having reached the factory stage, the cotton industry set the pace for the development of other industries.

3.India exporting cotton goods was gradually turned to a big customer for British cotton.

III. Перепишите и письменно переведите на русский язык сложные предложения. Обратите внимание на перевод условных предложений.

1.It would be difficult to translate this article without a dictionary.

2.If you had used new methods in your work the results would have been better.

3.You will go to the conference if you send your theses in time.

IV. Прочтите и устно переведите следующий текст. Перепишите и письменно переведите 1,2,3-й абзацы.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN

IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

1.We know the eighteenth century in Britain to be marked by the industrial revolution, which transformed commodity production by developing factories using steam power and machinery for mass production.In the middle of the eighteenth century the basic industries for this development were coal and iron. The future of the iron industry, and of coal, was assured. These industries being successfully developed, new inventions led to power-driven machinery and factory production.1760 may therefore be reasonably taken as the starting point for a new era.

2.The production of iron is known to have jumped from seventeen million tons in 1740 to over a hundred and twenty five million tons by the end of the century, and Britain began to export iron. All this helped to increase the expanding export trades. Woolen cloth had been the main export of England, but in the eighteenth century the new cotton cloth became more important and the British cotton industry rose.

3.The rising demand for cotton cloth led to improvements in production. New machines appeared and this led to the factory stage. Cotton was the first industry to reach this stage. For several decades into the next

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